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Choosing healthy beverages for children and adolescents is just as important as choosing healthy foods, as it impacts everything from oral health to chronic disease risk. That’s why leading health and nutrition organizations developed new healthy beverage recommendations for families with children ages 5-18. These evidence-based recommendations were created...
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Denise Amos CalMatters En los cursos de automoción de Marty Supple, los estudiantes se sumergen hasta los codos en motores de automóviles, deslizándose bajo chasis entreabiertos y tecleando lo que parecen marañas de cables en los tableros. Estos adolescentes están obteniendo créditos de la escuela secundaria y la universidad,...
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Denise Amos CalMatters In Marty Supple’s automotive courses, students are elbow deep in car engines, sliding under half-open chassis and plugging away at what looks like tangles of wires in dashboards. These teens are getting high school and college credits, at the same time they’re earning above minimum wage...
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Lynn La CalMatters A partir del 1 de enero, cientos de centros de tratamiento residencial con licencia estatal para niños y jóvenes de hasta 21 años que operan en California deben cumplir con una nueva ley que brinda mayor transparencia, particularmente cuando utilizan restricciones y salas de aislamiento. Después...
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Lynn La CalMatters Beginning Jan. 1, hundreds of state-licensed residential treatment centers for children and youth up to age 21 operating in California must comply with a new law that brings greater transparency — particularly when they use restraints and seclusion rooms. After restraining a youth, or putting them...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service Enero es el Mes de la Prevención de la Trata de Personas, y el FBI dice que la sextorsión por motivos económicos — a menudo dirigida a niños adolescentes — aumentó un 20% entre octubre de 2022 y marzo de 2023 en comparación con...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the FBI says financially motivated sextortion — often targeting teen boys — went up 20% from October 2022 to March 2023 compared to the same period the year before. Scammers will pose as an attractive girl on social media...
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Over the next couple of weeks, kids across the country will head back to school. Addiction specialists say now is a good time for parents to address any concerning behavior in their child’s online habits. Internet addiction is not formally recognized yet in a key reference tool from the American...
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Julia Tong AsAm News/Ethnic Media Services When Angela Kim first fell in love at 16, teen dating violence was the last thing on her mind. Her boyfriend showered her with love, and she was infatuated with their whirlwind romance. But then, she recalls, things suddenly started to change: Insults,...